Course
Description:
5 Credit hour studio course focused on the creation and manipulation
of 2-dimensional still and moving images on Macintosh computers as
it applies to art students. Prerequisites: 350 or 450, and 452. Repeatable
to a maximum of 15 cr hrs
Course Meeting Time and Location:
Tuesday
and Thursday, 11:30 - 2 :18 in the Emerging Technologies Studio,
Hopkins Hall, room 346.
Instructor:
Amy Youngs
Email: youngs.6@osu.edu -
best way to contact me
Telephone: Art
Department (614) 292-5072 - a place to leave messages for me. (614)
292-8914 - office phone, no voicemail.
Mailbox: 146 Hopkins Hall
Office location: Haskett
Hall, room 206b.
Labs and Hours:
Objectives and Procedures:
• To create art using advanced digital imaging and sequencing tools.
• To gain a solid, working knowledge of the techiques and context of computer imaging in a studio art practice. Through readings, lectures, demonstrations, discussions, critiques, writing and artmaking we will explore contemporary, experimental uses of digital media. While this is a studio course in which we will learn software and techniques, the main focus will be on the content of the digital art works created in class and your development as an artist.
• To experiment with methods of combining digital media elements such as still images, audio and video footage into meaningful moving image artworks
• To professionally mount and exhibit digital artworks in the end of the quarter Art & Technology Exhibition (See 10th week in course schedule).
Requirements:
Three completed art projects with accompanying written statements,
participation in the end of the quarter Art and Technology exhibition
and regular attendance and participation in class activities and discussions.
Grading:
15 points – Project 1 - Hyperreality,
a series of manipulated stills presented as a storyboard
10 points – Project 2 - Phosphene,
an exercise in creating digital moving images
20 points – Project 3 - Technoscape, a complete moving image project
25 points – Final project - a complete moving image work exhibited in Haskett
Hall Gallery
15 points – Total possible on all written artist statements
and research/response
papers
15 points – Active participation in class activities
and discussions, as well as general class citizenship.
To receive a letter grade of "C" you must maintain regular attendance,
complete all major assignments and participate in class discussions
and critiques. An "A" in this course will require that you far exceed
the minimum expectations for both quality and concept. Your work should
show a highly developed understanding of the concepts and techniques
of digital image manipulation, as well as an innovative incorporation
of this medium into your own developed aesthetic. Your contribution to
class discussions, group work and class critiques is vital for an "A". Click
here to read the evaluation criteria for projects.
Click
here for more information on what letter grades mean - literally
and numerically.
Attendance policy:
Don't miss class. Don't arrive late or leave early. You are
expected to come to class on time, ready to work and with all necessary
supplies and materials. Your final grade will be lowered by one full
letter upon your third absence - and again for each additional absence.
3 late arrivals or early departures = 1 absence. Absences are absences, whether or not you have
a note. Please use your 2 allowed absenses wisely and please contact
me by email or message to the Art Dept office if there are extenuating
circumstances.
You are responsible to find out what you missed and to complete
any missed work. There are only 20 days of this class, don't miss
out!
Critiques:
Class
critiques are very important and will be held at the
beginning of class on the due date of each project. If your assignment
is not complete for the critique your grade on that assignment will be
lowered by one full letter for each class day it is late. You are required
to attend critiques even if your work is not complete. Critiques are
not for my benefit; instead, they are the best method to
learn about artmaking - from a diversity of fellow artmakers.
Required
book: Adobe
After Effects 7 Hands on Training, by Chad Fahs and
Lynda Weinman. $30.00
on Amazon.com
Supplies:
Digital
Storage - To ensure that you always have a backup of your work,
you will need to purchase removable media of some sort. Methods include
CD-R's (writable CD's hold up to 700 megs), DVD-Rs (can hold
up to 4.5 gigs), USB thumb drives or external hard drives.
You may need to purchase 3 - 5 CDs or DVDs to hand
your assignments in to me. You
will be alloted 2 Gigs of storage space on the server for your work during
this quarter. However, in order to follow good digital practices, you
must always back up your work. Hard-drive crashes and
file corruptions do happen - and they are not an excuse
for late projects.
Final
project output - Depending
on how you decide to create and display your final moving image artwork,
you will need to plan accordingly with supply purchases,
(ie. If your artwork is an installation, you may have costs associated
with that). If you will be exhibiting a moving image artwork on a typical
screen you will need to burn a repeating DVD and reserve equipment
from Classroom
Services
well in advance.
Notebook and pen- taking notes will be necessary in this
information-intensive course.
Disability policy:
Any student who feels he/she may need an accommodation based on the
impact of a disability should contact me privately, as soon as possible,
to discuss your specific needs. Accommodations will be coordinated through
the Office for Disability Services at 614-292-3307 in 150 Pomerene Hall.
Policy
on student conduct:
Students
are expected to abide by the Ohio
State University's Code of Student Conduct. Any violations
will be reported to the Committee on Academic Misconduct.
A
few examples of violations you should avoid
• Turning in work as your own that was created in some part by someone else.
• Turning in work that violates copyright law.
• Turning in work for this class that has already been turned in for another
class.